A simple guitar inspired the Spanish artist to think out of the cubist box—and create a symphony of work that would change art forever. Blake Gopnik explores MoMA's new Picasso show.

Guitar playing also has the intimacy felt in Picasso's art at this time. Picasso wasn't making grand public statements—he barely showed his work during these years—but instead was in an ...

A simple guitar inspired the Spanish artist to think out of the cubist box—and create a symphony of work that would change art forever. Blake Gopnik explores MoMA's new Picasso show.

With his guitar assemblage, Picasso manages to represent empty space – of the guitar’s sound-hole, for instance – as a positive, material presence. The best of Artnet News in your inbox.

Pablo Picasso's 1919 work "Guitar on a Table," held on loan at the New York Museum of Modern Art since 1990, sold at Sotheby's Monday for $37.1 million.

He is a trickster, a mischief maker, and a jester. His remote antecedents include the devil figure in medieval passion plays. The guitar, along with the fractured female form, would become Cubism’s ...

That “Guitar” also presages “Woman With Hat,” completed almost 40 years later in 1963, and one of the latest works in the exhibition. Picasso rarely repeated himself, but he frequently ...

This work is Hockney's homage to Wallace Stevens and Pablo Picasso. Throughout the portfolio, Hockney appropriates many works by Picasso. In the 1960s, the young English artist David Hockney moved to ...

Artist Pablo Picasso's "Guitar on a Table" sold at an auction Monday for $37.1 million, moving the painting from its 30-year home at the New York Museum of Modern Art. (Sotheby's) ...